# \[tutorial\] golden text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-golden-text/168081>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [November 3, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-golden-text/168081 "2005-11-03T19:17:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![fluid\_tw0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@fluid\_tw0](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fluid_tw0)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-golden-text/168081/1 "2005-11-03T19:17:14Z")

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i came up with quite nice effect:

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step11.jpg)

so i want to share with you 🙂

1. create text you want gold (background doesn’t have to be dark - i’ve chosen dark background just for tutorial purpose)

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step1.jpg)

1. add to layer with text as follows:

shadow

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step2.jpg)

black outer glow

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step3.jpg)

stroke emboss

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step4.jpg)

gradient overlay

use following gradient:

#CC9933 at 0%  
#FFFF99 at 30%  
#996600 at %  
#FFFF99 at 100%

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step5.jpg)

stroke (same gradient as in gradient overlay)

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step7.jpg)

1. so far we have something like this

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step8.jpg)

but it needs some last touch, doesn’t it? so…

1. duplicate text layer, clear it’s effects, set **fill** to 0% and add following effects:

outer glow with #FFFF99 (it’ll give us some nice shine)

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step9.jpg)

inner bevel (but only the lightening one, we don’t want it to be dark, don’t we?)  
 ![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step10.jpg)

1. so we came out with

![](http://www.fld.pl/kirupa/tutorial_gold/step11.jpg)

post any suggestions, upgrades, etc 🙂